Last summer, five luxury hotels in the historic Nob Hill neighborhood of San Francisco teamed up with the Masonic Center to form the Nob Hill Connection, with the aim of marketing the convention options in the area.

From the famous seaside cliffs of Big Sur to the verdant hills of the Carmel Valley, Monterey County is filled with so much natural beauty that it can be easy to miss just how much is being added to its meetings infrastructure.